Re:Brutalism is Back
by lmm on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @06:59AM
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My point is that if the party calls itself the socialist party then clearly there isn't a big problem with the term "socialist".
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In "western Europe" the negative word for "socialist" is "communist", as most western-European "socialism" became social-democracy (i.e. "capitalist liberal-progressist" without Marxist commitment at all) after WWII.
Re:Brutalism is Back
by allendoerfer on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:24PM
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In Germany Honecker invented the term "real existierender Sozialismus" [0] (actually existing socialism) and except in some extremist circles definitely has a negative meaning today. In my head it is stored next to sentences like "Niemand hat die Absicht eine Mauer zu errichten." ("Nobody has the intention of building a wall").